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/N VEN TOH George Addison Phillips 7% W/TNESSES m UNITED S ATES GEORGE A. PHILLIPS, OF MARION, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,132, dated July 22, 1902.

Application filed April 28, 1902. Serial No. 104,939. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE ADDISON PIIII.-

LIPS, a citizen of the Uni-ted States, residing at Marion, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Files, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a file-oase which shall be cheap in construction and in which a plurality of papers may be filed readily and compactly.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. 1

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy improved file, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view in detail.

In the drawings, 5 indicates a base or back board, to opposite edges of which are secured mating sides 6 6, which are complements.

Each side 6 is provided with a depression 7,

into which leads from the forward edge of the side a track or groove 8. Mounted in each depression 7 is a plate 9, which is of less width than the depression and is held away from the bottom thereof by suitable lugs 10, the arrangement being such as to form a substantially U-shaped runway 11 around the edge of the plate 9. Themeans for holding the papers consists of plates 12, preferably thin metal sheets, each of which carries at one end a cross-bar 13, provided at its ends with heads 14, the length of the rods 13 being equal to the distance between the bottoms of the depressions 7. For the purpose of holding the papers on both sides of the plates 12 I provide a spring-clip, which consists of a wire 15, which is iirst doubled upon itself at 16 and the doubled wire again doubled upon itself at 17 at right angles to the bend 16, while the free ends of the wire are bent in opposite directions, as at 18, the arrange* ment being such that the two arms of the clip thus formed may be placed upon opposite sides of the plate l2, as shown. As many plates 12 may be arranged in the iile as may be desired, and for the purpose of holding them in position each side 6 is provided near its upper end with a depression 19, in the lower edge of which I form a plurality of teeth 20, which are adapted to hold a crossbar 2l. in any desired position of adjustment in engagement with the upper ends of the plates l2.

In operation the plates 12 may be indexed or otherwise individually distinguished, and papers may be placed between either face of each plate and the adjacent arm of the clip.

The several plates may be introduced through the grooves 8 into vthe runway 11, and when papers at the back of the file are desired cross-bar 21 is removed and the forward files drawn forward through the runway 11, around the forward end of plate 9, and into the lower side of the runway 11 and then allowed to drop into the position shown in the drawings.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a tiling-cabinet, the combination of a pair of opposed sides each having a runway formed therein, of a plurality of plates each having a cross-bar adapted to lie in said runway, and a spring-clip carried by each plate for holding papers and the like upon both sides of the plate.

2. In a lingcabinet, the combination with a pair of opposed sides each having :a substantially U-shaped runway formed therein, of a plurality of idling-plates each provided withra cross-bar adapted to lie in said runways, a spring filing-clip carried by each of said plates said clip consisting of a piece of wire doubled upon itself at 16, and the doubled portion again doubled upon itself at 17 17, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a filingcabinet, the combination with a pair `of opposed sides 6 each having a depression 7 formed therein and a track 8 leading into said depression from the edge of the side, of a plate mounted in each of said de pressions 7 so as to form a U-shaped runway 11, a plurality of filing-plates 12 each provided with a cross-bar 13 having heads 14, and a filing-clip carried by each of said plates, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have `hereunto set my hand and seal at Marion, Indiana, this 21st day of April, A. D. 1902.

GEORGE A. PHILLIPS. LI... s]

Witnesses:

FRANK STOUT, S. M. PHILLIPS, MAE SPEAR. 

